The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15

DO you mean the young lady in gray?
said the Colonel. "She looks frightened,
poor little thing! l am sure she is unac.
! customed TO travelling alone. 1t would not
be the thing I suppose. to offer her assist
ance?"
Il should rather think not" laughed
Percy "She-ah, there she is-Milly,
mean Why, the girl with the pretty face
is with her. She is going off for tickets OF
something. Alilly is taking care OF the
luggage Look at the child's face. She
thinks the boxes will run away if she stirs
a yard from them. Come along, Colonel.
say, MilN--"
There came cry from the slender, fair
instant percy's hands were seized, and his
little sister was pouring ont breathless
cries of rapture and surprise.
oh. Percy. you dear darling, is II really
you? thought YOU had gone of in that
horrid ship. and / couldn't sleep all last
night thinking of YOU How did you come?
Where are ven going Oil" turning TO her
brothers companion, Il beg your pardon.
Colonel Lyndon, didn't see you at first
Did you bring him back
Il have brought him here, Milly,n said the
Colonel, smiling. "and l mean TO take him
on TO Scotland.
"To & land2 To Ettrick2 To. night?r
cried Miily. breathlessly.
ITO Scotland tonight; 10 Ettrick,
hope, to- morrow, said the Colonel Now
there is plenty of time. Take your brother
away and have a good look at him.
don't think him much altered myself, by
the sea-tfip, but perhaps you may. will
find you again presently; / have TO look
up some friends
But the luggage, said Milly; II prom
ised Lefty TO look after il. She has gone
for the tickets.
The luggage will take care OF itself
It's all labeled, l see," said Percy; "but
who is Lettyi"
Lefty is my new governess She came
Just after you left. The very incest gov.
erness ! have ever had. and SO lovely.
Oh! Colonel Lyndon" cried Milly, "do
tell her where | an-the lady in a gray
dress. See! She is running TO the other
end OF the platform"
This was a sens what bewilderins re-
quest. The Colonel. who had never met
Mildred Ninstanler's goyerness, and who
judged. from her manner and appearance,
that she was as timid as wild deer,
scarcely knew what 10 DO.
Bat here she was, flying, GREATNESS and
bewildered. along the platform. She would
have 10 be stopped and brought back.
Tagging hard at his long mustache, and
trying TO look benign, the Colonel hurried
after ler. Three or four OF his long strides
brought him 10 her side. He lifted his hat
and smiled.
Pardon ms for addressing you.' he said
gently, but the little girl, Your companion
i ought 10 mention" he broke off to say,
for her eyes had taken startled expression.
and the red color had famed to her delicate
face, that am Colonel Lyndon. Lady
Flora Ninstanley wrote 10 me. She said
you and Miss Milly were travelling by this
train-she thought ! might be useful to
you."
Obi beg your pardon cried the girl.
holding ont her little sloved hand TO the
Colonel, and lifting up to his face pair
OF the most bewitching blue eyes he had
ever beheld. Il ought to have known who
you were; bat / thought, from what Lady
Flora said" She stopped short, drop
ped her eyes, and blushed again.
That | was very different from myself, y
said the Colonel, with smile. 1t was one
OF his pleasantest smiles, smile that made
| him look, as his little friend Milly would
have said, like somebody's guardian
angel" Whether Lefty Morrison felt the
same about it or not, she was certainly re-
| assured. She succeeded in giving little
laugh. and saying with an ease that sur-
prised herself:
"Oh, no; Lady Flora did not describe
You, and, no donbt, it was only my imagin-
| alton after all. WAS looking out for an
old gentleman. But / am forgetting your
! little Milly all this time. / left her-whS.
there is the luggage. She csnnot surely
have gone off wandering by herself" And
| then poor Lefty stopped and gave a little
gasp. There was AIilly, a few yards in
front OF her, clinging TO the arm Of a
fashionably dressed young man. and talk
| ing rapidly and with excitement, as she
gazed up into his face.
Her brother" exclaimed the Colonel.
Captain Winstanley-he has come back
unexpectedly and is on his way to Scotland.
Now" with courteous bow, Il will leave
you TO make his acquaintance. l See a
| friend of mine making signs to me-"